Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Metropolitan New York’s only monthly series for Latino multimedia-makers and actors

Join usfor the "madre" of holiday parties

HOLIDAYFIESTA

at the

A support network to advocate, promote & advance

mainstream & Latino projects in English & Spanish.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from 6-10pm

Latinos Unidos for Annual LOS PADRINOS Awards with Tío Louie

No
membership fee to being part of thePRIME
LATINO MEDIA network. However, there is one mandate to follow as we turn
five years old in February: we are a professional media and entertainment
network connected by supporting one another as a community of Latino
multimedia-makers, actors and musicians. Los PADRINOS (Godparents) awardees embody
a model for supporting community. More than ever, we must stand united. For
2017, we are committed and connected to advancing our projects and careers in
mainstream and Latino media!

Bárbara MatosThe Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion at CBS Corporation, she reports to Josie Thomas, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. She has been at CBS since May 1995. In her job she engages with diverse partners and local and national advocacy groups to enhance outreach, and has been, an integral component in the initiation of the wide range of diversity efforts at CBS. She is most known for her open door policy and her work in the community as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and also serves on their Diverse Women in Media Initiative Advisory Committee, she is an Advisory Board member of Arts for a Better Tomorrow (ABT), and works closely with the Hispanic Federation. She also served as a Big Sister in Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City and continues to be involved with the organization. She was among the 2016 honorees of the Imagen Foundation's Powerful and Influential Latinos in Entertainment. She is a graduate of St. John’s University.

Adel L. Morales (@MoralesAdelL)Bronx-born and -bred, a former high school English teacher-by-day and a filmmaker-by-night, he quit his 17-year career to pursue a passion for filmmaking. He already had his B.A. in English Literature from Pace University and an M.A. in English from Lehman College/CUNY. In the fall of 2012 he began his studies at the NYU Graduate School Film Program. In 2008 he co-founded HollyHood Productions and joined SAG-AFTRA as an actor. He recently had the world premiere of his narrative short, Lucy Barron,at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival inNYC. But he is most known for his community work serving for two years in 2008 as President of the New York chapter of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). Then during four years at NYU, he has given a hand to his fellow students producing 18 films, seven of which he wrote and directed. Many Latino filmmakers in New York have been direct recipients of his pro-bono production skills in one capacity or another on their project. He is currently in development of his thesis and graduates from NYU in spring 2017.

Louis E. Perego Moreno (@TioLouie)Founder & Executive Producer of PRIME LATINO MEDIA, the largest network on the East Coast of Latino
multimedia-makers, actors and musicians in
bilingual Latino and
mainstream media, digital and entertainment. He hosts PRIME LATINO MEDIASalón, metro-New York's only monthly network gathering in which
over 100 narrative and documentary filmmakers, programmers, casting agents, TV
and digital media producers, actors and journalist/authors have been
interviewed. An interactive content producer and educator who for the past 35
years has owned Skyline Features, a
bilingual (English- and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production
company developing documentaries, television programming and advertising
commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and LGBT. Created a
non-profit video training program that over the course of ten years produced 70
documentary shorts
with 1,500 Latino and Black Youth. Producer-director-writer of documentary
feature, Latina
Confessions (What does
it mean to be Latina in the USA?) and on the PBS documentary feature as co-producer
of American Dreams Deferred,
about a Puerto Rican family and their son’s journey graduating from NYU with a
master’s degree. For 13 years he served on a national level and for two years
he was the President of the National Association of Latino Independent
Producers in New York (NALIP). He has been serving for over 19 years on the
Board of Advisors for the Center for Latino Arts and Culture at Rutgers
University.